temper

Meaning

Noun

1. A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
2. State of mind; mood.
3. A tendency to become angry.
4. Anger; a fit of anger.
5. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
6. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
7. Middle state or course; mean; medium.
8. The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
9. The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
10. The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
11. Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.

Verb

1. To moderate or control.
2. To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
3. To adjust the temperature of an ingredient (e.g. eggs or chocolate) gradually so that it remains smooth and pleasing.
4. To sauté spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
5. To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
6. To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
7. (obsolete) To govern; to manage.
8. To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
9. To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
10. (obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.

Concepts

temper

disposition

mood

nature

harden

humor

humour

character

temperament

anneal

moderate

season

toughen

mollify

spirit

rage

anger

mitigate

irritation

soften

steel

strengthen

discipline

irritability

passion

feeling

chasten

personality

dander

master

tone down

quality

refine

palliate

fire

fortify

guts

train

pacify

natural disposition

normalize

biliousness

peevishness

pettishness

snappishness

surliness

toughness

pique

alloy

constitution

lessen

composure

equanimity

assuage

mind

choler

spleen

allay

extenuate

tempering

water

angry

quick temper

bad temper

willpower

spirits

proclivity

dip

dunk

immerse

soak

modulate

beef up

reinforce

tighten

annealing

will-power

drill

forge

refining

smelting

fit of anger

torture

nerves

emotion

furor

impatience

sensitivity

solidify

stiffen

tone

trend

chafe

dash

fret

grain

paddy

petulance

provocation

ruffle

seducer

proper condition

fit condition

mean

bronze

temperature

govern

restrain

reconcile

dilute

mix

attune

adjust

tempter

will

property

dioposition trait

quality property habit

2

fury

harshness

vigour

attitude

cheer

disposal

vein

aggravation

angriness

dudgeon

fume

huff

ire

miff

tantrum

wrath

wrathiness

blend

placate

relent

smooth

soothe

abate

bate

damp

qualify

remit

blazing off

draw the temper

drawing-back

flashback

tempering drawing

reduce

regulate

irascible

grouchy

age

cure

irascibility

short temper

quench

break

relax

relieve

smooth out

head

point

admit

allow

bite out

clear

deliver

discharge

douse

emit

exhaust

give off

let

let go

liberate

make

pass off

pop

rid

spill

unhand

unlock

utter

curb

attemper

energy

vehemence

heat-treat

drop forge

coolness

possession

quietude

restraint

alleviate

appease

attenuate

deaden

ease

patch up

draw

drawback

drawing

genius

idiosyncrasy

manner

sex

habit

propensity

qualities

smelt

characteristic

caprice

fancy

megrim

whimsey

whimsy

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈtɛmpə/

Etymology

From Middle English temperen, tempren, from Old English ġetemprian, temprian, borrowed from Latin temperō (“I divide or proportion duly, I moderate, I regulate; intransitive senses I am moderate, I am temperate”), from tempus (“time, fit season”). Compare also French tempérer. Doublet of tamper. See temporal.

Sentences

Temper is so good a thing that we should never lose it .